Events

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10th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival

The Kings County Fiber Festival returns to OSH & Washington Park for it’s 10th year!

Spend the day with natural fiber artists, crocheters, dyers, felters, knitters, quilters, spinners and weavers in the annual fiber festival. The full day event will include a marketplace for independent fiber artists from the tri-state area.

During the Festival, we host the “Make Warm Hats for the Homeless” hat drive. Make a hat for someone who really needs your help this winter. Bring your hat donation, in an individual plastic bag, to the Festival donation table. We will deliver the hats to group homes, shelters and soup kitchens within New York City. Last year we collected over 600 hats.

Apply to be a vendor here.

Featured photo: ShirstyCat.

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Jack & Friends Family Music Playground Series

Join Park Slope Parents and local family performer Suzi Shelton for a series of free, fun-filled musical performances and amazing giant bubbles. The bubbles start at 10 am each Thursday and the music begins at 10:30, May 20 – June 24.

Geared for families with children ages 0-5 years, but everyone is welcome!

This series is in-person at the Old Stone House & Washington Park.

In the event of poor weather, the performance will be broadcast live from 10:30-11:15 am on the Park Slope Library Facebook page.

 

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Putting the “Flow” in Flowers: Watercolor Painting Class

Join instructor Rhea Sarah Kirstein in the OSH Gardens for an intermediate watercolor class inspired by nature.

With the gorgeous gardens at the Old Stone House as our backdrop, we will explore the unique properties of watercolor and leave behind notions of its “hard to handle” reputation. Instead we’ll embrace unpredictability and capture subject matter as it emerges on paper. We’ll focus on what happens when pigment and water mingle… when we go with the flow instead of trying to resist it.

Some experience with watercolor preferred but not required, all levels welcome. We will meet outdoors, masks are required.

$25 per 2 hour session.

Sessions held on Mondays, 5/17, 5/24, & 6/7. Sign up for 1, 2, or all 3 sessions!

See the supply list and sign up here.

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City Council District 39 Primary Candidate Forum

Join the Park Slope Civic Council and community co-sponsors for a Candidates’ Forum for the 39th District primary on the New York City Council.

The 39th Council District covers all of what is thought of as Park Slope, as well as adjacent neighborhoods to the northwest and south. District maps are available here. The current Council Member, Brad Lander, has held the position since 2009 and, due to term limits, cannot run for reelection. As a result, candidates are running for an open seat.

Weather permitting, the event will be held outside on the field behind the Old Stone House. Enter on 4th Street, between 5 and 4th Avenues. Bring a chair or a blanket. We will have limited seating available for those who prefer. If weather does not allow for an outdoor event, we will hold the forum over Zoom.

Please register for the event here.

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Spoke the Hub Presents: Urban Edge in Concert at OSH

Enjoy dancing and an outdoor concert by local music group Urban Edge and help our neighbors at Spoke the Hub raise funds for a new Gowanus Arts Annex on Butler Street.

Urban Edge features:

Marshall Farr on trumpet

Eric Loffswald on saxophone

Rory Dineen on guitar/vocals

Sam McPherson on bass/vocals

Mark Kapian on drums/vocals

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“Nature Contained” Exhibition Opening

In their new site-specific collaborative and individual works, artists  Jessica Dalrymple, K. Haskell and Suzy Kopf respond to growth and death in the Old Stone House garden.

Combining watercolor collage, ink on mylar, and oil on paper, these works engage with the life cycle of urban nature, contained. They encourage a deeper understanding of specific plant life and celebrate the beauty of the cyclical quality of nature, to help catalyze individual and collective rejuvenation after a year of global pandemic.

Join us for an in-person reception on May 15 from 3 pm – 5 pm with the artists and curator Katherine Gressel. Masks and distancing will be required at this event, 10 people will be allowed in the gallery at a time. Please note that the gallery is on the second story and is not wheelchair accessible.

More information on other public programs is coming soon!

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“We’re Still Here…” Creative Outdoor Market

In conjunction with the opening day of our outdoor portrait exhibition “We’re Still Here…” on Saturday, May 15, OSH & Arts Gowanus will host an outdoor artist marketplace!

For the opening day of this event, we are planning to include 30 Brooklyn based creative vendors who will be able to sell their art and creative products to the public in attendance. This project is in collaboration with The Old Stone House and is part of the Arts Gowanus Gallery Dispersed initiative.

All application information is available here, apply by April 26 for consideration.

This event is rain or shine, however if severe weather occurs, we will be moving the opening of the portraiture event AND the artist market to May 22nd. You must be available both on May 15th and 22nd if you are applying to participate.

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Cook Out The Vote- Voter Registration Event

Stop by the Cook Out The Vote table to register to vote and learn about making democracy delicious!

Connect with them for updates on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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“We’re Still Here…” Public Exhibition Opening

Opening May 15th, “We’re Still Here…” an outdoor portraiture exhibition with Arts Gowanus features portraits created by and depicting local Brooklyn residents.

After over a year of struggles during COVID, this exhibition is meant to celebrate the resilience, strength, and diversity of our amazing Brooklyn community. This project is in collaboration with The Old Stone House and is part of the Arts Gowanus Gallery Dispersed initiative partially funded by the Brooklyn Arts Council.

This exhibition will feature over 100 images of artwork from local Brooklyn artists printed on banners which will be exhibited on the fence surrounding J.J. Byrne Playground from May 15 – June 25.

In addition to the outdoor show, this exhibition will also take place online, the original version of each work will be available for sale on the Arts Gowanus online Artsy gallery.

On May 15, we will also be hosting Arts Gowanus’ first Creative Outdoor Bazaar, Cook Out the Vote, and the opening of our indoor exhibition “Nature Contained” featuring works by members of the Gowanus Swim Society.

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